[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-19 00:34:02-07]
although I was a little nervous about not having a GUI, I've found exiftool to be extremely useful and easy, thank you!
since I'm already performing the edits on copies of the originals, can I make the changes to the files without exiftool creating the backup file? It's easier for me to not have to pickout the backups within a folder of batched images.
thanks, j
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-19 11:37:51-07]
You can add the -overwrite_original option to the command
line (or in brackets to the name of the stand-alone executable) to
prevent the original file from being preserved.
[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-20 15:46:58-07]
thanks that worked great, with that info I was able to find "overwrite_original_in_place" too.
Is it true that Shortcut tags are not writable? for example: -MyShortcut= will not work? or is there a method of defining this new group as writable?
thanks again,
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-20 15:58:16-07]Shortcuts can be written as if they were a normal tag.
See the
shortcuts page.
- Phil
[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-20 16:26:23-07]
my fault.... I should have mentioned "user defined" shortcut tags in a .Exiftool_config file. Should these also be writable?
thanks,
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-20 16:49:23-07]
Yes. User-defined shortcuts are writable just like regular shortcuts.
- Phil